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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

That's right, to you and every other chocolate-loving chocoholic out there who can't quit craving the sweet stuff and have long since polished off the last 3 Musketeers bar in your kids' Halloween candy stash.

You know who you are.

So come along. Let's take a ride on the gentle waves of chocolate's sweet caress:

I can't decide which I like best: the lovely square-tiered cake with chocolate-embroidered white runners down the sides & the most beautiful bow EVER on top, the amazingly folded & pleated confection that doesn't even look like a cake, or the last one with that intricately patterned ivory layer and the brooch on the bottom that I would wear as jewelry. Every cake in this post is a work of art!

*Sigh* I just discovered that when I lick the computer monitor it doesn't taste like the cake I'm viewing. (I tried at least twice...) These are spectacular and, yes, I did hear the first part of the post in Barry White's voice. Thanks for reminding me of my own chocolate wedding cake. It wasn't a show stopper like these, but it was beautiful and boy, did it taste good! (And we're still going strong 23 years later -- I can't say for sure it was the cake, but I'm betting it was a contributing factor. Why take the risk? Get a chocolate wedding cake...)

After seeing these, we may want to renew our vows...

Thanks for starting my day with one of my favorite things, Lindsey, and making me want it SO MUCH.

Naomi, I was going to say the same thing. Barry White with "Sexy Sax Guy" playing in the background. Then I heardthe needle stop on the record player and the voice became a woman going on and on with much enthusiasm about chocolate.

I totally heard Barry White too! These are all beautiful! The 7th one down is just amazing! I keep going back to look at it, I'm so impressed! I totally want a chocolate rose! Just got caught up on the last couple of days posts. I tried to check in over the weekend but it was just so busy, then I broke my foot yesterday at work. Nothing like a broken bone to make you slow down! <sigh> Hope everyone had a great weekend! I missed you guys!

I'm not a big fan of eating the frosting flowers on most cakes but those chocolate roses on the cake by Baking Arts (the 5th cake down) make me think I'd give them a try - so pretty and so chocolatey!!! and that cake with the gorgeous chocolate swirls by Cakes by Occasion is my favorite - very different and delicate and of course oh so chocolatey too!! yum..

I was scrolling along, eyes half closed, grooving to Barry White's voice and drooling over these gorgeous cakes... when the comment "My pajamas have cats on them" popped up and I lost it. I'll be giggling over that all week.

I totally heard the post in Barry White's voice too. I have to say, the third cake is my absolute favourite - and I'd totally have it at my wedding...but I need to find a groom first ;) - but they are all gorgeous....and as others have noticed, nary a poop-swirl in sight!

So nice to see chocolate confections that don't look like they've come out of the bum-bum. Proof that the colour of chocolate has nothing to do with, *ahem*, crappy cakes - just the skills, or lack thereof, of the baker.

I can imagine the feeling the semi-firm fragile swirls of chocolate from cake #7 breaking between my lips... MMM-mmm.... Swirly, chocolaty bliss.

I was feeling vaguely scandalized that this was sounding like (whispers) "porn" until I got to "BE the chocolate" and totally heard Carl from "Caddy Shack" (aka Mr Bill Murray). Yeah. Like a bucket of ice cold water, I'm tellin' ya.

BTW, I heard Lou Rawls.

Of course, it's all chocolate so I'm a happy woman...of course, I would still have eaten all the turdkeys from last week that were chocolate, too. (hangs head in shame)

The paved chocolate cake reminds me of the ears from a Mickey Mouse ice cream I would get from the ice cream man as a kid. Chocolate ice cream coated with crunchy milk chocolate. I wonder if they still sell those... I'm having a craving!!

One of my Top 5 Reasons For Getting Married Dressed As A Klingon; it was the perfect (and only) excuse I needed to have the triple chocolate wedding cake I'd always dreamed of! Sweet Mother of Bowie, that was a good cake; everyone enjoyed it so much, I barely managed to save the Anniversary Slice! Of course, I probably would've still gone chocolate even if it'd been a "normal" wedding; white cake and frosting suck AND blow hard as an old vacuum. If I'm spending a fortune on a bloody cake, I want to make sure I ENJOY it, tradtion be damned!

@ Barbara Anne - I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling hot n steamy over the narration...until the cat's pajam...uhhh, I mean the pajamas with cats part...wait, was that Lindsey's way of slipping in a 'sex kitten' reference? ;-)

And yes, this reminds me of how my wedding cake was *not* chocolate. I *LOVE* chocolate. My sweet sixteen (ok, fourteen) birthday party was 100% CHOCOLATE. Chocolate milk, chocolate cake (a fancy chocolate mousse from a baker in the fancy part of town!), and Rocky Road ice cream. So, naturally, I wanted a chocolate wedding cake. But, my future sis-in-law-law (wife of my hubby's brother) had a cake decorator relative & *everyone* wanted me to get her Italian creme cake. They said it was "to die for!" So, in the interest of future in-law harmony, I did. BUT, I insisted on a chocolate groom's cake, thinking I'd get some that way. *WRONG* Gone in a Flash! :-(

And the Italian creme? It tasted good but didn't "grab" me. Though, everyone else raved about it afterward, including the hotel chef. He asked for the recipe but was refused. (The recipe is a family secret. Funny, they haven't shared it with me either...)

That first cake is sloppy, sorry. Probably delicious, but if you're going to put lines down the side of the cake, they should be both straight and parallel. I wouldn't be happy with that at my wedding. The others are beautiful, though.